| Tue, 06 May 2008 |
Myanmar's military rulers are allowing in food and other emergency supplies but have not yet approved visas for some aid workers seeking to assess the damage from a massive cyclone, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "So far the government is welcoming the material assistance. That assistance is on its way," Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told a news conference in Geneva. "We are waiting for the visas for our disaster management assessment team in Bangkok," Byrs said, expressing hope the staff would be permitted to travel to the former Burma soon.
Source: Reuters
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| Mon, 05 May 2008 |
A major fire broke out in Burma's infamous Insein prison in Rangoon last Saturday, leaving at least 36 dead and 70 injured, according to reports emerging from Rangoon. "More prisoners were killed due to the shooting of the prison guards than due to the fire. It is the duty of the government to fight the fire. But instead, they shot the prisoners," said Ko Tait Naing of the Thailand-based Assistant Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).
Source: Mizzima News
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| 5. 5. 2008 |
Cyklon Nargis, který se v sobotu přehnal přes Barmu, si vyžádal téměř 4000 obětí, další 3000 lidí se pohřešují. Informovala o tom dnes barmská státní média. Referendum o nové ústavě se i přes katastrofu bude konat v plánovaném termínu, tedy 10. května, oznámila dnes vládnoucí vojenská junta.
Zdroj: ČTK
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| Mon, 05 May 2008 |
The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more may have been killed in the disaster.
Source: DVB
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| 4. 5. 2008 |
Tropická bouře Nargis, která se o víkendu přehnala přes Barmu, si vyžádala nejméně 243 obětí. Původně byly hlášeny pouze čtyři oběti. Bouře zcela zničila tisíce budov. V pěti oblastech vojenská vláda vyhlásila stav katastrofy. Jeden z vládních představitelů srovnal škody ve městě s těmi, které v USA napáchal hurikán Katrina.
Zdroj: ČTK
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| Sun, 04 May 2008 |
Burma's junta declared five disaster zones on Sunday—Rangoon, Irrawaddy, Pegu divisions as well as Karen and Mon states—after devastating cyclone Nargis slammed into mainland Burma on Saturday. At least 240 people have died across Burma, authorities said. The number of injured was not available, but it is believed to be high. Rangoon residents who are experienced with natural disasters are already complaining bitterly about the slow response from the military government. "Where are all those uniformed people who are always ready to beat monks and civilians?" one woman asked. "They should come out in full force and help clean up the area and restore electricity."
Source: The Irrawaddy
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| 24. 4. 2008 |
Zdroj: Evropský parlament
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| Thu, 24 Apr 2008 |
Source: European Parliament
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| Fri, 11 Apr 2008 |
Kenya's Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai has pulled out of the Olympic torch relay in which she was due to take part over the weekend in Tanzania, citing concerns for worldwide human rights. "I have decided to show solidarity with other people on the issues of human rights in Sudan's Darfur region, Tibet and Burma." She said China had failed to exert pressure on the military junta in Myanmar/Burma to respect human rights, including freeing democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. "The issue of Burma and the fact that China can help resolve the human rights problem in that country is also of concern to me," Maathai told AFP.
Source: AFP
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| 10. 4. 2008 |
Padesát čtyři ilegálních imigrantů z Barmy se udusilo v kontejneru, v němž byli propašováni do Thajska. Cestu přežilo 67 barmských dělníků, 21 z nich muselo být ale ve vážném stavu hospitalizováno. Oznámily to agentury AP a AFP s odvoláním na thajskou policii.
Zdroj: ČTK
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| Tue, 08 Apr 2008 |
A Reuters news agency photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography on Monday for a picture of a Burmese soldier shooting dead a Japanese video cameraman during a last September’s demonstrations in Rangoon. The news agency’s Adrees Latif won for "his dramatic photograph of the Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar [Burma]," the Pulitzer Prize board said.
Source: The Irrawaddy / Reuters
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| Tue, 08 Apr 2008 |
Notwithstanding, the economic sanctions imposed on Burma for its human rights violation record, the country raked in USD 2.7 billion from the sale of natural gas last year. Government statistics reveal that the trade volume of Burma touched a record high at USD 8.7 billion. But the trade deficit was USD 3.1 billion in foreign trade since the export value was 2.8 billion and the import value was USD 5.9 billion last year.
Sale of natural gas was 45 per cent of the total export value. The major gas trading partner was Thailand.
Source: Mizzima News
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| Thu, 03 Apr 2008 |
A 62-year-old activist who was arrested after staging a solo demonstration in front of the US embassy in August last year has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. U Ohn Than was arrested in August for staging a protest outside the US embassy against fuel price hikes and the Chinese and Russian governments’ use of their vetoes at the United Nations Security Council.
Source: DVB
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| 1. 4. 2008 |
Půl roku po potlačení masových veřejných protestů přesouvá barmský režim zásahy proti svým kritikům z ulic do uzavřených soudních síní. Nejméně 40 lidí, mezi nimi 7 mnichů, poslaly soudy do vězení. Tři lidé skončili za mřížemi za to, že protestujícím mnichům podali vodu.
Amnesty International rovněž potvrdila, že od začátku protestů v loňském září bylo uvězněno nejméně 700 osob. Ve vězení nadále zůstává i zhruba 1150 dlouhodobých politických vězňů barmské junty.
Zdroj: Amnesty International CZ
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| Sun, 23 Mar 2008 |
A man set himself on fire at Yangon's most famous landmark in a political protest against Myanmar's military junta, witnesses said Sunday. The incident was the first known case of self-immolation in Myanmar since the military regime took over in 1962.
Source: International Herald Tribune / AP
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| Thu, 20 Mar 2008 |
Various activists and citizens in Rangoon, Mandalay and Kachin and Arakan states are urging the public to take a stand against the military-crafted draft constitution, which has still not been made public. The All Burma Monks Alliance released a statement this week calling on all citizens and Buddhist monks to remember the September 2007 crackdown and to boycott the May referendum and the state-run religious examinations to be held this month.
Source: The Irrawaddy
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| Sat, 15 Mar 2008 |
Burma denied a visa to investigator for human rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, whose report to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday cited growing repression following the crushing of monk-led protests in the country last September, the United Nations said.
The UN rights envoy said on Friday he could believe in “gnomes, trolls and elves” as readily as he could credit the Burmese military’s democratic reforms.
Source: The Irrawaddy
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| 18. 2. 2008 |
Evropská unie je nadále hluboce znepokojena situací v Barmě/Myanmaru a naléhavě
vyzývá orgány, aby podnikly rychlé kroky pro přechod k demokraticky zvolené vládě. (...)
EU je nadále pevně odhodlána pomáhat lidu Barmy/Myanmaru, aby dosáhl stability,
prosperity a demokracie. EU je připravena podle vývoje situace přezkoumat, změnit nebo
posílit již dohodnutá opatření.
Zdroj: RADA EVROPSKÉ UNIE
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| Fri, 15 Feb 2008 |
Burma will send an official delegation to Asia's largest arms fair, Defexpo, which will be held from Saturday to Tuesday in New Delhi, India.
The arms show will allow the Burmese junta an opportunity to negotiate new arms contracts, expand their arms trading partners and attend seminars on new weapons technology.
Other countries attending the fair are the United States, Canada, South Korea, South Africa, France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Norway, Italy as well as countries that regularly sell arms to Burma—Russia and Ukraine. China has said it will not attend the event. Indian arms corporations will have a large presence at the exhibition.
Source: The Irrawaddy
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| Mon, 11 Feb 2008 |
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association firmly condemn the transfers of journalist U Win Tin and blogger Nay Phone Latt to Insein prison, near Rangoon. The two organisations also condemn a government decision to restrict the content of newspapers’ websites to the articles approved by military censors for the print editions.
“U Win Tin and Nay Phone Latt have no place in Insein prison,” the organisations said. “It is a crime to send U Win Tin, one of the country’s leading journalists, back to this appalling prison just 20 days after a hospital operation, while Nay Phone Latt’s imprisonment is a disturbing sign that the military are ready to try him. We call for their unconditional release.”
Source: Reporters Without Borders
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| Mon, 11 Feb 2008 |
The Burmese military junta's surprise announcement on Saturday that it plans to conduct a referendum in May, and multi-party elections in 2010 as part of its efforts for democratic reform, has evoked a mixed response.
The National League for Democracy, Burma's main opposition party points out that the junta's plans lack democratic practice, and the statement indicates the ruling generals only plan to legitimize military rule.
Source: Mizzima
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| 9. 2. 2008 |
Vojenská vláda v Barmě dnes oznámila, že v květnu v zemi proběhne referendum o nové ústavě, následované volbami v roce 2010. Opozice je i po dnešním oznámení maximálně obezřetná a tvrdí, že ze strany junty jde s největší pravděpodobností pouze o úhybný manévr, vynucený mezinárodním tlakem.
Zdroj: aktualne.cz
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| Fri, 08 Feb 2008 |
Za demonštráciami stojí americká CIA. V Thajsku vycvičila budhistických mníchov, ktorí organizujú protesty s cieľom zvrhnúť vládu. S touto verziou najväčších prodemokratických protestov v Barme za takmer dvadsať rokov prišiel štátny denník Nové svetlo Mjanmarska. Správy o prudkom zvýšení cien palív a o rastúcom počte ľudí v uliciach na svojich stránkach najskôr ignoroval. Po príkaze zhora však o nich začal písať v negatívnom zmysle.
Zdroj: Štefan Hudec
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| Thu, 31 Jan 2008 |
The number of political prisoners behind bars in Burma increased last year to at least 1,864, according to the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).
A statement issued on Thursday said the figure—an increase of 706 over the 2006 total—did not include all those arrested during and after the September demonstrations.
The AAPP drew particular attention to the regime’s practice of arresting relatives of wanted political activists as a way of forcing them to give themselves up.
Source: The Irrawaddy
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| Wed, 30 Jan 2008 |
Noble peace laureate opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under detention has expressed her dissatisfaction with the current pace of talks for political reforms in Burma, spokesmen of her party the National League for Democracy said on Wednesday.
The Burmese democracy icon told her party leaders in no uncertain terms during a rare meeting today, that she is frustrated over the lack of progress on talks for political reforms in the country with the ruling junta. The meetings with the military junta's Liaison Minister have not been fruitful.
Source: Mizzima
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| Fri, 25 Jan 2008 |
Political activists continue to be imprisoned in Myanmar, according to new research by Amnesty International. There have been 96 arrests since 1 November 2007. Amnesty International's research completely contradicts the assurance that arrests had stopped and that no more would take place given to UN Special Representative Ibrahim Gambari in early November by Myanmar's Prime Minister Thein Sein.
(Article includes a list of those arrested.)
Source: Amnesty International
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| 25. 1. 2008 |
Čtyři měsíce po demonstracích v Barmě úřady pokračují v zatýkání politických aktivistů. Podle Amnesty International (AI), která se snaží monitorovat situaci v zemi, se jedná o 96 nových zatčení od 1. listopadu 2007.
Zdroj: Amnesty International
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| Thu, 17 Jan 2008 |
Disappointed with the slow pace of change in Myanmar, the Security Council today said an early return to the country by United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari could help promote progress towards democratization and national reconciliation.
Source: UNNews
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| Fri, 11 Jan 2008 |
A bomb exploded at Pyinmanar railway station near the new Burmese capital Naypyidaw at around 4am this morning, killing one woman, local sources said.
Source: DVB
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| 9. 1. 2008 |
Během zářijových nenásilných v protestů v Barmě bylo zabito a zadrženo mnohem více lidí než připouštěla barmská vláda. Situaci zmapovala organizace Human Rights Watch ve své nové studii. Od té doby zalarmoval vojenský režim v Barmě celý svůj aparát, aby mohl zastrašovat národní opozici, pronásledovat vůdce protestů a zbavoval mnichy jejich kněžských funkcí. Studie nazvaná Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma obsahuje více než 100 rozhovorů s očitými svědky v Barmě a Thajsku. Jedná se o nejkomplexnější přehled událostí, které byly o protestech v Barmě zveřejněny.
Zdroj: Econnect/HRW
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| Wed, 02 Jan 2008 |
In what is seen as an attempt to stop Burmese citizens from accessing foreign news and information broadcasts, the Burmese government has ordered a massive hike in the annual satellite television license fee without any warning. According to local journalists, military authorities recently increased the license fee from 6,000 kyat [US $5] to 1 million kyat [$780], a 166-fold increase. The deadline to apply for a satellite license is January 30.
Source: The Irrawaddy
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